BIO: Allison Cobb is the author of the little box book (Situation Press) and Born 2 (Chax Press). She was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico and now lives in Brooklyn.

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To make things wild I thought : would make them real real
real not burnt highway ropes : hooked to a ship
sick with glitter Come giant : squid no one
has seen alive skim the dark with giant lanterns
blinkless see in the : lack Look

it : flowers up beside me slipping under water
in this train tube of light : fetus-color Where
is the War I can : no longer finger My hear no relation
to the heart-shaped stickers stuck on ammunition
My bomb : written on as if blowing the letters
Apart achieves a more pure : eloquence
Silence : both question and answer
The squid said this